Charlie Sheen's Mercedes stolen, crashed in ravine

View full size(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)In this Sept. 20, 2009, file photo, actor Charlie Sheen, right, and his wife Brooke Mueller arrive at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. Police say a Mercedes that belongs to Sheen was stolen and found crashed in a ravine.

LOS ANGELES — Actor Charlie Sheen's stolen Mercedes was
found overturned hundreds of feet down a cliff near his Sherman Oaks
home early today, but there's no evidence anyone was in the car when
it went into the ravine, police said.

Police got an emergency
call around 4 a.m. from an OnStar-style alert system that calls
emergency officials when there is a problem with the vehicle that may
require assistance, Officer Wendy Reyes said.

At about the same time, Sheen called police to say his four-door Mercedes-Benz had been stolen, Officer Bruce Borihanh said.

Police and firefighters found the car 300 to 400 feet down a cliff, upside-down in the brushy ravine.

They searched the area on foot and with an infrared-equipped helicopter but found nobody in or around the car, Borihanh said.

"They've
looked all around the hillside. There's nobody in the car, nobody
around (and no) evidence of anybody being around at the moment of
impact," he said.

Sheen was not believed to have been in the car
because he would have been badly injured in the accident and "I don't
know how he would have gotten back up" the cliff, Borihanh said.

"It's being treated as an auto theft investigation," he said.

Sheen's publicist, Stan Rosenfield, confirmed that Sheen's car was reported stolen but said he had no details.

"Charlie is fine, and the police are investigating," he wrote in an e-mail.

Yale
Galanter, an attorney for his wife, Brooke Sheen, said he could not
comment on the crash because it was under investigation.

Sheen,
42, the star of the CBS comedy "Two and a Half Men," was arrested after
a Christmas Day domestic disturbance at his Aspen home. A police
officer's arrest affidavit quoted his wife as saying the actor pinned
her on a bed while holding a knife to her throat.

Sheen denies
threatening his wife. He's scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Aspen on
domestic violence charges. He and his wife also are seeking
modification of an order that prevents them from communicating with
each other. She has said they love each other and want to reconcile.

Brooke
Sheen spent a week in a Los Angeles hospital last month, including
several days in intensive care due to an infection and life-threatening
pneumonia that developed after oral surgery. Her attorney has said she
delayed having oral surgery because of scheduled court hearings in the
domestic violence case.

(Associated Press Writer Robert Jablon and AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch in Los Angeles contributed to this report.)